Among the ruins of man
The cold light, clear, implacable, which creates and evokes the work of Evola did
strictly empty because it has continued to invariably put
bare the nature and attitudes unmask outward.
While the statues of wax melt one by one, the sharp blade
continues undeterred by the trainer.
Beyond hope and despair, desire and boredom, with surgical
linearity
Gabriele Adinolfi
"should out of the rim charmer. Should be able to conceive 'to tro - create new eyes and new ears to things that have become invisible and mute in the distance. "
(From the introduction of Revolt Against the Modern World)
The monkeys
"With that face a bit 'so, with that look a bit' so that we have we read Evola ..." So Ligurian humming some militants of the seventies on the false line of a popular song from Genoa. It was the irony squads of a illuminated mocked austere attitude of haughty pose, which characterizes the self- "evoliani" we all sarcastically defined "Evola's Witnesses."
Individuals from the readings made strictly with sharpness, is believed superior to the masses, an unmoved mover "act without acting" and that they had discovered the "kali yuga", the dark age in which darkness prevails and the overthrow of any value.
That this was not the case when Evola had touted the theme (or the Roaring Twenties of the victorious fascist), but in the wake of a stinging political defeat, at the height of witch hunts, the lynching now, between the whistling of bullets and the noisy and relentless close down the prisons of the bolts behind the few diehards who fought stubbornly, seemed not then, nor now appears remote in time, completely innocent.
salon intellectuals
A few years later, other soldiers brilliant ink that, with exceptions rather shoot, yet they were shut out strictly in house leaving their peers to be massacred, expressed another consideration equal and opposite. Evola was accused of being a carrier of a "myth incapacitating" without even noticing that the statement is a real contradiction in terms. That is attributed to
Evola to have expressed a mindset that stiffens and does not lead far. And between the lines, accused him for his intransigence, a unit of measurement that hindered the compromises taken by pragmatism. Had he not, Evola, reiterated in the introduction of "Revolt Against the Modern World": "And now has the job of those who can keep the lines of top: firm in principles, inaccessible to any grant, indifferent to the fevers, the convulsions, superstitions and prostitution, to whose rhythm dance the last generations (...) to create new relationships, new distances, new values: to build a center which will be the beginning of any crisis liberating " note 1
Horror! The bold intellectuals sought space in the living rooms and on television and, later, after failing to flirt with Craxi, would be able to work their way through each one individually, with the House of Freedoms. Something that Evola would result - in this one - really incapacitating.
Evola irrecoverable
After years of fire and ashes, we are sunk, all in the midst of the "Truman Show", in the era of the virtual, the attitude in passing the critical chatter neurotically unstable and increasingly focusing on ' voyeuristic observation of existence and coexistence. All the bourgeois vices are welded together with proletarian tastes hinterland, and the halls exude style Maria De Filippi. "Culture" is the flagship of poor climbers and bribe-crumbs.
The large stomach of this contemporary troppumanità minced and digested every word, every statement, each author to reshape defecated in a sort of late pop artifact.
Chloroform intellectual / political lines comes out of every magazine, every issue of right and left. By becoming a shield for some ex (TP, Nar, BR, etc.) to itself and never have survived only in this larval state, correct post-political salons and the heads ripropinano everything we have, by carefully removing the inner meaning . By Junger in Mishima, from Christ to that, from Gramsci to Coderanu. Fortunately, this systematic re-write Evola remains absent. Here and there you are trying to appropriate something so biased and specious (the reactionary Evola could justify some amorucolo with the neocons, the accuser Evola spiritualism, masonry and subversion can provide some argument integralism Christian Evola the traditional Roman manhood and offers some all'anticlericalismo arrow). However you do not even try to recall Evola in itself because it is too clearly accusing each choice of convenience. And that Evola escape that recovery can not fully satisfy.
Evola what was
Evola dismiss it a bit 'all. Not because they reject him, but they do not want under any circumstances be placed in front of themselves. And who speaks of it as implacable Evola touchstone of the man who was a painter, poet, philosopher, mountaineer, a volunteer in war SS preparer, in the fist choice who welcomed Mussolini soon after the release from captivity on the Gran Sasso, operating beyond the lines, but a war invalid now adheres to the Far, leader of postwar radicalism and uncompromising observer of contemporary society and postciviltà consumers. This
Evola, which has nothing to do with the moralistic and puritanical imaginative depictions that occasionally emerge in the reconstruction of his false connoisseurs, this man of 'action without action "had a vision or anything but contemplative property provides us, ALWAYS, the lens through which to see if we are or if we simply pose, appears. And, together, the key to understanding the inner meaning of every gesture and supreme. "The real Evola is disappearing for months frozen in the snow to write a book that alternates between the beautiful women (and they were many) with those of alpine climbs that are in training to maintain the spirit (...) Such is the distributes free time between Vienna and tabarins Alpine cloister of the Cistercian Order, whose harsh discipline submits himself for months, the traveler visiting the Casa Verde and Ordensburg Crössinsee between the lakes of Pomerania. You a man who can not sacrifice experience to advertising, the inner quest for success. " note 2
The main Evola is not the political theorist (who was at the request and never really convinced) but he who has the perception and understanding of the sacred and profound meaning. It is the alter ego that arouses in us our own implacable judge. Nothing strange, then, that citizenship did not find at those who are acquitted, however, in advance, all which do not give account to the other and, far more serious in themselves, their betrayals, their failure , their deceptions, their shamelessness, their immodest "under which shrinks", to quote the Federico. Note 3
Critics shallow well
are wrong, then, the few critics in good faith (those who not only condemn Evola press so their talking cricket) when they lead the discussion on productivity policy. The statements evoliane should never be read in that key being the Baron, all less than a theoretical commitment or a strategic brain.
Comments are therefore legitimate opinions evoliane (Just with regard to the relevant policy is defined thus, where in all that regards the vision, perception, criticism, the world and man, you must use the term ideas). However, those who dispute the assertions that seem overly reactionary postwar dell'Evola forget to put into context that is to compare what is clear from "The men and ruins" with the statement made during and before the war: that more and set the advanced belong. In short, do not consider them, that Evola had passed from an experience that brought him to attend the best European dawn (from Mussolini to Codreanu), scholarly intelligence and viable (by Preziosi to Guenon), spirit warrior European elite and aristocratic revolutionary (even contributed to the formation of the SS) at a time when young men willing but superficial and self-taught, often surrounded and controlled by scoundrels, floated in a puddle with no horizons. And that, in this context, pure and simple not to drown in the mud took a Mr. meaning. Yet in that book which offers Evola, mercifully, into nihilism opportunity to actively recruit those who do not know (which is dedicated to "ride the tiger"), and in that book that, philosophically speaking, it is huge, the author there provides development that are not reactionary and Adriano Romualdi heard remark: "The men and the ruins closes with a chapter on Europe (...) the same formation of an 'elite , closely interwoven with the possibility of forming a Europe together (...)
It is, first, to break away from the little nationalism, to recognize that the homeland, the nation is, after all, merely associations' natural, 'mother'.
It is, secondly, to devise a political symbol which offers a super-manly, 'father', to rise up to a European imperial perspective. " Note 4
So we notice that, precisely in his most controversial and "incapacitating" Evola was then advanced than today.
Struggle and Victory
On Evola's political views is legitimate to discuss, without thereby giving excessive evidence of folly or presumption. I personally do not agree, for example, the fierce criticism the vocation of social revolutions of the thirties. Because, at least we think so, Baron claimed to apply to all the final liberation from the need that belongs to an elite. Which must, in effect, give up the desire, the "demons of the economy", but only for a process of inner growth that can not be imposed on others. Moreover, we consider social justice as something fundamental in the political forum to defend what you have to commit even to the "spirit of chivalry" that Evola rightly raises and puts forward.
Finally, we believe the only form of economic socialization in line with the warlike nature.
We would also move some comments from the historical doctrine of Evola who already are in part expressed by Adriano Romualdi "Evola logic goes for great prospects and makes use of symbols, is the logic of myth, which defined it as Bachofen, namely 'the mirror of the deepest human experiences in the light of the spirit'. This process is likely to become abstract when applied strictly to cases " Note 5
Romualdi Specific cases identified in the Renaissance and Napoleon.
We, however, we would go further, up to advance the view that Evola, when is the metaphysical sense of history, should somehow astrarlo by his becoming, resident, most likely in a timeless metaphysical. A place that can be perceived or sensed but never expressed so rationally accomplished. Nor would it be possible otherwise, the intimate and speaking for the supreme symbols and analogies. The diachronic reading, which is characteristic of traditional and popular vocabulary, according to the intent that produced it, should make us understand the hidden meaning of history, in our opinion, bordering on essential, but it still expresses a vision approximate and, what misleading, causing an error of perspective that, in many cases, also becomes a political and existential.
history as the descent continues, unstoppable, not only is questionable (as the straight dotted line of cycles and therefore, possible rising), but opens the way to determinism nientificante.
The perspective and not being existential phenomenology, the most unaware of the fact of the matter which is not defined in the hope of success or duration of a work policy, but the slope - inside - to the sources of the myth by myth.
The metaphysics of history, as all metaphysics, is first and, to a certain point of view, only applicable to themselves.
For this reason, when we deal with the formation of young, always Provisional Guidelines " note 6 deepening in his stead " The doctrine of air fight and won. " Note 7
Breed of spirit and soul of America
With all the reservations, the political Evola offers in every way, to anyone who is not hopelessly obtuse , realistic perspective, both individual and project that, without fail, however, readers have never been able to put into practice, but we find with both hands in the same "The men and ruin." It gives us the reading of values \u200b\u200band essential part of any act ordered for a purpose not only contingent.
A closer look, beyond those "systematization" remarked that Adriano Romualdi and to which we ourselves have even extended the criticism, Evola always defines the meaning of things, choices, actions, battles. It pretends to swing to an antidote. Just think of his diatribe with the ideologists of National Socialism about race and the spirit of biological race. Almirante against him while defending "the race of the muscles," Evola was able to put in place a series of crude approximations (including the interpretations of the law of inheritance Mendel), to support: "When a human being has to forces of instinct, blood and heredity all that gives shape and support for his life, he still belongs the 'nature'. On this basis, can also develop the higher faculties, but these faculties will always be an expression of nature, not a possession of the personality (...) We are dealing with a law intangible, 'style', which, if taken as raw material 'nature', it does not, however, leaves and bears witness to reduce the presence and action of forming the element of order super-organic, according to which only makes sense to speak of personality. " note 8
And again: "The memories of that place, preserved in the traditions of all peoples in the form of various myths, where it always appears as a 'land of the sun', as an island continent of glory, as the sacred land of the God of light, and so forth, are already in this respect, quite eloquent. Now, at the point where you started the hyperborean prehistoric migrations, the Hyperborean race could be considered, among all, the upper, the superrazza, reflecting the Olympic race in its extreme purity of the breed of the spirit. " Note 9
In other words Evola is the doctrine of differentiation not a privilege acquired by skin color or social development, but a relentless commitment to an action upon himself in order to achieve which is considered sacred to the origin of man.
There is, in this, the unbridgeable distance from neodestrismo conservative and vulgar, because the difference is taken as a task to perform, a task to be undertaken, a duty to perform, and not as the acquisition of the birthright of social supremacy. Just as, at a distance from Evola neorazzismo array wasp, in times even surprising, there is a total condemnation of Americanism and the acknowledgment of its equivalence with communism, "one of the reasons interest cultivated Bolshevik ideology for America stems from the fact that she had seen how well the type of civilization of the latter the technicality corresponds to the ideal of depersonalization. The moral standard corresponds to the practical American. The comfort for everyone and the overproduction in the consumer society that characterize America have been paid with the price of millions of men reduced the automation in the work, trained in a specialization to the bitter end that narrows the field of mental and blunts every sensibility. " Note 10
Evola, therefore, not a little lashes the theoretical superiority of western cheap.
The experience of the sacred
Essential, in Evola, is what underlies the sacred and its experience. Who reads "Mask and face of contemporary spirituality" can not help noticing that the author, of metaphysics, not a theory, a concept, a hypothesis, but a perception cheating unequivocally ' experience. Note 11
It also provides us with substantial caveats: "Evola as nobody has clearly distanced from each pathos theosophical and spiritualist (...) shows how Evola spiritualism is nothing but the refuge of weak souls, of mediocre intelligence, personality fragile and fantastic " Note 12
Furthermore, the metaphysical experience is the main theme of Evola, Adriano Romualdi as rightly remarked:" In reality, he had always considered the 'modern art' is not a performance but an experience, a descent into the depths of the ego, the hellish trip to the country element. (...) Will Evola its nihilistic discipline the basis for the assertion of positive values \u200b\u200b" Note 13
" The impulse to give form to his philosophical insight of the world lies in the Evola its eminently logical, capable even of intoxication of lucidity, but that never expires for intellectualism, but tends to be Olympic training will self Note 14
"Space, time, causality, laws of nature that no longer appear as contingencies in other contingencies. Evola, challenging the official philosophy of the scandal, is not afraid of referring to the positive results of the most advanced analysis on supersensible " Note 15
Asceticism warrior
notoriously at odds with Guenon, Evola said the hierarchical superiority of the warrior figure on the priesthood and, therefore, experience working on contemplation.
A little 'as Parsifal, which unlike the other knights of the Grail Search survives because it raises the question: "what to make of it and me?" Evola as seen especially in the recruitment of an existential challenge 'era of drought and desertification. A time when you get to heaven by violence on its doorstep, such as Hercules, the hero who rescues Prometheus, the Titan.
And in "The hermetic knowledge "which reveals the intimate and profound sense of alchemy, this warrior asceticism which also involves the experience of Christ and the Cross. Inner alchemy which requires several steps of successive states. "The blackness , namely the killing of the normal individual, the 'albedo , opening ecstatic moon, to the light that rains down from above and finally the rubedo, the transfiguration of pure fire, pure active force, are the three stages which can be found the 'gold' of the origins " Note 16
The active nihilism
Essential, authoritative, and Evola surgery the most controversial of the book and probably misinterpreted, "Riding the Tiger" Note 17
For many readers' surface, which annoverino arbitrarily in the group that the author calls the "different" or that schierino between the champions of moral conformism, it is a manual open-minded and dangerous. There is even those who came to attribute the responsibility of the ideological formation of Nar. Note 18
In fact in this book for which Evola said he chose as a title of the Far East which, incidentally, was quoted by Adolf Hitler in August '44, subsequent executions in the aftermath of the attack now the lair of the wolf, 'author expresses what mood and what prospects are within the reach of those who act without feeling the need to hope but, nevertheless, carefully pointing victorious outcome. Note 19
and let them talk about it is the same Evola.
"(...) the destructive processes in motion, humanity will last simply suffered. (...) However, there is as well as other, far more limited class of modern men that, rather than endure the nihilistic process, seek to engage them positively (...) It outlines the idea of \u200b\u200ba test and destruction are only the consequence of not being worthy of it. " Note 20
" After all the superstructure has been rejected or destroyed, and that basis alone it has its own be, the ultimate meaning of existence in life, can come only from a direct relationship between this and be absolutely (between what is determinate) and transcendence (transcendence of itself). Note 21
So what counts is "Being in the whole piece, right in the curve" Note 22
Anonymous. Transcendence as experience.
this is so, there is evidence to be so - in the entire fragment and in the right elbow - completely anonymously through a statement that is both personal but only in the sense than ever and individualistic.
"To the extent that the 'defense of personalities' has any basis individualistic, it is meaningless and absurd. There is no point taking a stand against the world of the masses and quantity, and not realize that their individualism led to it " Note 23
" the 'person' is what the man is actually and appreciably in the world, in the situation he has chosen, but always in the sense of form of expression and demonstration of a principle which is higher-level recognition of the true center of being and where it falls, or ought to fall, the focus of the Self " Note 24
" As an individual, so the same person is in a sense closed to the outside world, and in relation to it may apply to all instances of the existential which we have already recognized the legitimacy of the present time. Unlike the individual, the person, however, not closed up.
The personal being is not himself but has himself (the relationship between the actor and his part) is presence in what is, not coalescing with what is " Note 25
" Is there really a size where the personality is more visible the work that the author, the objective than the subjective " Note 26
Evola, in fact, shows us the North Star:
"This is not to go below, but above the personality, to what is 'typical', ever." "Who has managed to turn himself in this different current living include transcendence not as dogma but as a "footnote 27
men over the ruins
Evola, in other words, gives us the key to understanding the deep, vertical , transcendent, existential there in a battle before any other, allows us to understand what it means and elevates our commitment that would otherwise stagnate in the contingent, in its, in the horizontal, in the fleeting, ephemeral.
Although a few have managed to extricate itself from the intellectual conformism and existential common to its critics, its emulate, to his detractors and those who have taken blindly and then denying it, the few they have left deep ruts. First, in themselves, then tangible in their path. Leaving aside those still alive and active, take for example Clemente Graziani, Leucio Honey, Walter Mailloux. Men, these, teaching full of existential affirmation, witness traditional, but also architects revolutionary immune from any stiff neck.
How much more valuable and even more innovative products has been manufactured by those from stagnating in a puddle of that which, with a stubbornness on Kipling, took care to speak and who had acted with the flower Europe's most beautiful, brings so Evola, in any event, the mark of origin. Pace of his detractors trivial, incapable of myth. Unable, that is, to assume the myth, to form in the myth, the myth of being and becoming function. But some eyes, some ears, lips some, some skins are not made to see, hear, speak, feel, everything, and their carriers oscillate, miserably, between mediocrity and mythomania, empty and sad fate of the ego forced narcissus .
Thirty years later
Thirty years have passed since that day of Mars, June 11, in which exhaled Julius Evola, in Rome, the last breath, before his ashes were to be entrusted to the Monte Rosa.
Time has vindicated: dozens and dozens of wax figures, but they were still pretending that only inert, they are dissolved, fading, so it should be. In fact no longer in fashion - even in the niche segment of the "cursed" - said the "evoliani" dummies have found other fictions to play, other ways to live attitude. The comedy has reversed script. There's more to justify the forced fasting with asceticism intentional, because today is also allowed to eat there, you indeed. Neither the 'apolitical' is invoked to dignify the makeshift wall between safe, that the bullets did not whistle anymore. Nor its social failures, existential, sexual, human, lack of communication, need so much more than an alibi: fundamentalism of various kinds and encourage them more softly so very reassuring.
There are so many reasons to deploy Evola suspected to pretend falsely to have pushed its peak prevailing spirit of gravity. It has so far reduced the number of those who commemorate the life and work.
And even this is significant, soothing, reassuring and increasingly motivating. As he laid linearly
Adriano Romualdi. "The more we identify with a certain position reached, others want to be something more than look, and look beyond themselves to their works. Evola belongs to the latter " note 28
note 1 " Revolt against the Modern World ", Edizioni Mediterranee, Roma, 1969, p.. 7. The first edition of 1934.
note 2 Adriano Romualdi, "On Evola" Ed Fondazione Julius Evola, Rome 1998, p.. 81 The first edition of 1968.
note 3 Friedrich Nietzsche, "Thus Spake Zarathustra", ed. Murcia, Milan, 1965
note 4 Adriano Romualdi, "On Evola," op. cit., p.. 97
note 5 Ibid., P.. 70
note 6 "Guidelines" is the introduction Evola's work, published by Imperium in 1950, was reprinted from the editions of Ar, Padova 2000
note 7 "The doctrine of air Struggle and Victory" is the text of a lecture given in German by Julius Evola in the Science section of the Civilization of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute at Palazzo Zuccai in Rome, 12.07.1940, printed several times by the Editions of Ar, Padova, first edition 1970.
note 8 "Synthesis of the doctrine of race," editions of Ar, Padova 1978, p.. 42
note 9 Ibid, p.. 50
note 10 "Revolt against the Modern World", Edizioni Mediterranee, Roma, 1969, ch. "The cycle is completed," pag.429.
note 11 "mask and the face of contemporary spirituality", Edizioni Mediterranee, Roma, 1971. The first edition of 1932.
note 12 Adriano Romualdi, "On Evola," op. cit., p.. 55
note 13 Ibid, p.. 35
note 14 Ibid, p.. 36
note 15 Ibid, p.. 41
note 16 Ibid, p.. 54
note 17 "Riding the Tiger" was designed with "Men and the ruins in 1953 but was only given to the press 1961; editions Falcon, Milan.
note 18 Ferraresi sociologist at the University of Sorbonne, October 1986, at the symposium organized by the Department of Politics Evola Hermetica.
note 19 David Irving, "Hitler's War", published by the Seventh Seal, Rome, 2001, pg. 839: "He who rides the tiger can not dismount find that."
note 20 "Riding the Tiger" The Hawk editions, Milano 1981, p.. 38
note 21 Ibid, p.. 64
note 22 Ibid, p.. 70
note 23 Ibid, p.. 106
note 24 Ibid, p.. 108
note 25 Ibid, p.. 109
note 26 Ibid, p.. 110
note 27 Adriano Romualdi, "On Evola," op. cit., p.. 102
note 28 Ibid, p.. 45
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